Stacked Crates - Loot Crate Overhaul

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Description

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Completely overhauls the loot crate system. This does a lot so read on.

Version 7 is the latest version compatible with DLC 7

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Find weapons, equipment, and battlemechs to loot crates

Adds rare loot crates with high value and even lostech loot

Adds ultra-rare Star League caches! But watch out for the defenders!

Customize the probability and quality of any loot drop to your preferences

Stock vanilla "empty" crates, cantina job crates, and Objective Raid crates with loot

Customize detection and scan distance!

Customize scan time!

Automatically scan crates!

AI lancemates can detect and scan crates!

Add map markers for discovered crates!

Fully customize loot crate indicators with vanilla light towers or Immersive Loot Crate Smoke and custom brightness and colors!

And much much more!

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More Details

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This mod completely alters random loot generation to allow you to obtain not only weapons but also equipment and even mechs from random loot drops. The loot is completely regenerated at mission start or when you change options and settings.

Keeping up with documenting all of the options is too much work.

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Secret Sauce

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This mod works by editing the TreasureActor class blueprint, the actor that represents a loot crate, so that on BeginPlay a new function is called that generates completely new loot, ignoring the loot already generated by ScenarioGen. Based on weights assigned by the settings in the Mod Options menu, the new loot generation function will choose whether to generate a mech, equipment, or weapon. It then builds a list of valid loot, accounting for DLC, intro date, lostech, and difficulty level, and then randomly selects a random loot item randomly completely at random.

The list of valid loot is built using ALL valid Data Asset types of the given class - so mods that add mechs, variants, equipment, or weapons will have their assets show up in these loot crates. Even clan gear. No special action is required by you. The other mod creator only needs to ensure the asset's Intro Date, tech level, and tier are all set correctly, which they should be anyway, but I can't guarantee the quality of other modders' work.

This all happens during the BeginPlay event when you start a new mission. With version 3 or later there is a brief frame drop at mission start while the generator runs. This only happens once per mission or after changing game settings, and is only really noticeable wh